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Lesser Scaup
Aythya affinis
28.0138, -82.6965
Field Notes
Description:
The underparts are white with some olive vermiculations on the flanks, and the rectrices and tail coverts are black. Adult females (hens) have a white band at the base of the bill, often a lighter ear region, and are otherwise dark brown all over, shading to white on the mid-belly. Drakes in eclipse plumage look similar, but with a very dark head and breast, little or no white on the head and usually some greyish vermiculations on the wings
Habitat:
Their breeding habitat is inland lakes and marsh ponds in tundra from Alaska through western Canada to western Montana. These birds migrate south. This one was spotted at a County park swimming in salt water in the upper portion of Tampa Bay this date.
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